Posted by kim on 05/03/07 10:17

"Tumbleweed" <thisaccountneverread@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Tumbleweed wrote:
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>>>>> Just been given one of these and burnt my first disk. Its viewable on
>>>>> the same recorder, and also another DVD player, but cant be read on
>>>>> either of my PC DVD drives, gives an error like 'wrong format'. Is
>>>>> there an RTFM or similar I should be doing? The media I used works in
>>>>> the DVD rewriter on my PC.
>>>> I think you'll find the DMR-E50 is Panasonic not Philips? (I've got
>>>> one)
>>>>
>>>> And yes it's a bastard trying to burn discs which will play on another
>>>> machine.A friend swears by Sony DVD-R for this particular player.
>>>>
>>>> (kim)
>>>
>>> You are correct, bloody crap keyboard I have. :-)
>>>
>>> So you think its just down to the media then? OK I'll try some Sony's
>>>
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>> Just to play devils advocate - did you finalise the disc ?
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>> :)
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> Unfortunately I did (or it would be easy to fix :-).
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> I pressed 'stop' and a message then came up 'finalising disk' and then it
> counted up progress, so I am pretty sure it did do that. Will RTFM and see
> if there is anything else I might have missed.

The DMR will eventually give up on finalizing as anyone who's had one for
long has eventually discovered. It will still record DVD-RAM through so I
suggest you get a cheap DVD-RAM drive and use that to copy discs in your PC.
You can even edit them in the PC using TMPGEnc DVD Author or similar.

(kim)

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